Journal+1

**__ Writing Territories __**
Running Track

Singing

Trip To New York

Growing Up In North Carolina

First Day Of High School

Being A Daddy’s Girl

My Best Friend Chanel

Seeing John Wall In Person

Going To South Street With My Best Friend

Going To Counties In Track In Field For Two Years In A Row

**__ Sneeze: An Adventure On South Street __**
This summer, about the last week of summer, my best friend Chanel and I decided to take a trip down to South Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. We left York, P.A at about 6 o’clock that Friday night. We arrived in Philadelphia also known as Philly or the city of “brotherly love”. Once we arrived in South Street the first thing we did was browse the stores. South Street is a lively place, music going, and lots of tourist. On South Street there were a lot of varieties of stores….Gucci, Addida Outlets, and so on. On South Street they have an early curfew for people under the age of 18, because there is a lot of crimes that happen after hours, so pretty much there were about 7 cops on each corner block, which made it hard for us to walk around because a lot of people where getting in trouble. Once we had walked South Street and back there was one place we had to go before we left which was a famous cheese steak restaurant called Joe’s I believe. Well when got outside of Joe’s there was a line stretched outside of the door, giving us about a 30 minute wait to get our food. As we got inside along the walls were signed pictures of famous athletes, musicians, and actors who had visited once before. After ordering our food there was a spot on top of the building where you could go out and sit. Where we sat you could see all of South Street, the shops, the clubs, and many tourist walking around.

We ended up leaving South Street at about 10 and since it was my friend Chanel’s first time in Philadelphia we ended up going to the rocky stairs and the art museum. We parked the car maybe about 1 mile away so we could stop and look at the famous fountains and parks in main town Philadelphia. As we were walking we seen a lot of homeless people along the park benches and park grass, which made me sad for them. As we approached the stairs there was a brand new rocky statue signifying the name of the stairs.